: Automatically remove overlays from a set of identical images using Gimp I have a number of images that have all the same background but each has different text overlaid (they are covers of

@Vandalay110

BgMask is a script that does what you want. It has automatic and manual background extraction mode. Load your images as layers and do Extract Background, and if that leaves artifacts, use manual background extraction tool. See also a video tutorial.

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@Vandalay110

I don't know of any general way to do that, and indeed, in some cases an automatic solution might not even be possible without some way to distinguish the text from the background. (You could, for example, decide that the color a given pixel had in a majority of the images was the background, but that could fail for pixels that were actually covered by text in all but a few of the images.)

However, in some special cases there do exist simple solutions. For example, if the text was always darker than the background, then you could simply open all the images as layers, change their blending mode to "Lighten only" and merge them.

Of course, for light text on a dark background, the same trick could be used with the "Darken only" mode.

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